 The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 548edited by - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Association for the Improvement of Juvenile Books - Children's poetry - 1841 - 250 pages
...sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between The venerable woods — rivers that move Tn majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the...the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun. The planets, all the infinite host of heaven Are shining on the sad abodes of death,... | |
 | John Keese - American poetry - 1840 - 300 pages
...quietness between ; The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty ; and ihe complaining brooks, Thai make the meadows green : and, poured round all, Old...the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death,... | |
 | Oratory - 1840 - 452 pages
...complaining brooks, That make the meadow green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's grey and merancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun. The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death,... | |
 | 1877 - 506 pages
...and ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks...the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...as the sun' ; | the vales', | Stretching in pensive quietness between, ; | The venerable woods' ; | rivers that move In majesty, | and the ""complaining brooks' | That make the meadows green, ; | and, pour'd round all' | Old ocean's grey, and melancholy waste', | Are but the solemn decorations all',... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1849 - 316 pages
...that move In majesty, and the complaining brooka That make the meadows green ; and, pour'd round aD, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste ; Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. Remark 1. — Whatever inflection may have been given 8 word or passage, when first expressed, it has... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...ancient as the sun. — the vales stretohins in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods — rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, pour'd round Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,—, [all, Are but the solemn decorations all Of... | |
 | Thomas Moule - Animals, Mythical, in heraldry - 1842 - 276 pages
...heraldry ; but an undulated line expressive of waves, and conveying the idea of water, is commonly used. - Rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green, are equally depicted on the shields of feudal lords where privilege or potency is necessary to be shown.... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1843 - 294 pages
...sun,—the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods—rivers that move la majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the...the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...ancient as the sun ; the vales, Stretching in pensive quietness between ; • The venerable woods ; rivers that move In majesty ; and the complaining...meadows green ; and, poured round all, Old ocean's grey and melancholy waste, — Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. 6. The... | |
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